Why should you have gone first and I
remain to walk the road alone?
How can I live alone in this garden with
happy days we've known?
Why should I wait for you in the yard
when everything looks blue?
And why can't I be with you every day
and catch a glimpse of you?
Should you go first and I remain for
battles to be fought?
Each thing you've touched along the
way will hurt me on the spot
I will hear your voice and see your smile
though hardly I may cope
The memory of your helping hand will
drown all my hope.
Beyond the sunset in the morning when
from heaven you see
My pain and sorrow have never ended
my loneliness you see
Should you go first and I remain to
finish writing a poem each day
No less than shadows shall ever creep
in to make this life seem a fray.
We've known so much of happiness
we've had our cup of joy
And memory is one gift to treasure that
death cannot destroy
I want to know each step you take that
I may walk the same
For someday down that lonely road
you'll hear me call your name.
Should you go first and I remain one
thing I will have you do
Walk slowly down that winding path for
soon I will follow you
In your new homeland we will know no
parting beyond and evermore
We will love and live like prince and
princess on the heavenly floor.
I am missing you today; I will miss you
tomorrow and also every day
When the sun rises and then it goes
down with your thoughts today
I will miss you when I am unable to
cook and wash and sleep
When I close the door of this home for
the night so deep.
I will miss you now and every moment
for the rest of my leftover life
When mine is the only reflection in the
mirror without my wife
But I will celebrate every day the
multiple fond memories I treasure of
you
I want to keep listening to your sweet
voice that I always knew.